Living on a Prayer in 18,000 sf, tasteful friends

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Someone here once claimed that Jon's a bottom.

I thought R2's post was preposterous until i saw the photos of the interior and it's over the top decor (which rivals Rush Limpballs NYC digs that were for sale a couple of years ago).

I now say Jon's a huge, insatiable bottom.

He’ll probably use some of the funds to keep financing his “pay what/if you can” store restaurants.

R3, that's what the person was claiming. He said he knew someone that fucked JBJ on the regular and that he's been having sex with men since he was a teen.

I want it!!! I’m surprised at how tastefully decorated it is.

His wife is the designer.

You mean his beard, R7?

nice staircase.

that's about all, though. at least the exterior genuinely looks like it could be in france, with the addition of some real exterior shutters.

fufu decoratin'

As subtle and restrained as his hair.

And so uncomfortable looking!

Not exactly the home I pictured for a rock and roller

Much more frou frou than I would have expected his tastes to be, even if his wife or girlfriend did the decorating.

Note: Robert A.M. Stern is the architect.

My favorite thing about all these Tasteful Friends threads is that so few DLers understand the concept of staging, especially when you are trying to sell a house for tens of millions of dollars.

HINT: It's unlikely that any of that is Bon Jovi's actual furniture, but rather was put there by whomever the realtor hired to stage the place in a way that would appeal to the type of person most likely to spend tens of millions of dollars for a house at the Jersey Shore

Nothing about that decor says, "I'm in rock and roll!"

More like, "I'm a florist who inherited daddy's billions!"

R14 it's not that we don't understand staging. it's that few of us really understand why they bother. waste of time and effort. show us the bloody ROOMS!

it generally looks fake (because it's cheap), and makes the house look worse than it is.

if you have to have indications as to how to use a space, why buy it? i doubt the wealthy people who can afford such places are impressed by such staging. nor do they need help decorating.

I don't think this is staged. Some of the details -- curtains, etc -- are too elaborate for it not be part of the house's decor. I'm surprised it is as over the top as it is.

And: I do not believe he is gay. A good friend of mine's dad writes a lot of songs with him, and he is often around, writing or hanging out. He is known to have had many affairs with women -- and a few quickies in the bathroom -- but I've never heard of him doing anything with a guy. That's not to say that he has never been with a man -- he probably has; the rock and roll life, filled with late nights and drugs and drinking and excess, can lead to many experiments -- but I doubt he is even bi. His music also sucks.

You're wrong on all counts R16

1. Look at all the comments on here by DLers (R15 being an easy example) who think it's his furniture, or R17 who doesn't think it is staged, that the photographer just shooed Jon and his family out of the room before snapping away.

2. It's rule 1 of real estate that staging a house helps people imagine themselves living in it. Even rich people. Most people don't have the imagination to picture the house decorated.

3. The realtor seems to be betting that whoever buys it will be someone who likes traditional furnishing.

Who cares whether it's staged or not?

We can snark either way.

Nah - if it was staged, there would be more coherence. This is all over the map. Yes, they removed personal effects and may have removed some furniture or re-arranged it, but this is not staging done by a professional or even realtor.

Bland, bland, bland - outside-in.

Ghastly.

That tapestry at the end of the living room doesn't fit the wall and looks as if it were just slung up seconds before the pic was taken.

The exterior elevations and siting are beautiful. I don’t really like the kitchen but the brick barrel vaulting in it and the octagonal breakfast room off it are to die for.

I think like most listings, some of it is theirs and some is brought in. It’s elegant at first glance but the art is crap and a lot of the furniture cheap-looking. Obviously the curtains in the saloon are original, and will be transferred with the house.

I think they must still be living there, because why just show the public rooms of the house?

They don’t show bedrooms or bathrooms which suggests to me they are being kept private because the house is not staged.

This is not staged. You think someone with Bon Jovis millions and from New Jersey wouldn't already have this over the top gauche in their house? This is his idea of class. Ever see the house he grew up in?

Nobody staging a home for a real estate photo would set up the living room like that with the dated looking furniture and mismatched fabrics. I think the shell of the house is fine, the outdoor spaces are beautiful, but some of those decorations are awful.

Does JBJ still make money?

You have no idea whether it's staged or his own stuff.

As a practical matter, do you really think they went through and painted the walls through the entire house (or at least the rooms they've shown) in a country distressed (and very dated) look?

Do you really think they tore out all the kitchen cabinets and replaced them with those ornate or replaced the fireplace mantles and light fixtures in such taste specific styles?

Furniture and even drapery - sure. But, if you're going to spend money to stage, you're not going to select such dated and/or taste specific styles.

Not enough people with that kind of money would want to live in New Jersey.

R28, the interior paint job is listed as a selling point! The house was built in 1999 and around that time, at least in my part of the world, women of taste and means were decorating their houses like they were the dissipated heirs to obscure French marquises.

The Plastic Surgery Pavillion is lovely.

His wife is unbelievably coarse.

She is certainly not conventionally attractive, R32. On one the Bon Jovi threads from a few years back many could not understand what he ever saw in her.

It's not staged. Yes, staging can be an important part of selling properties - in certain markets. But you can sell a house without staging, and you can sell a house while the owners' furnishings are in place. In California everyone has the same taste: shitty watered down Michael Taylor or much watered down John Saladino sorts of things, and there's an army of stagers available. It's just not that necessary in other markets, and in a house if this scale there's not likely anyone who has the resources to stage it even half well. It looks like hell (or Carmela Soprano's place( when all the furniture is shifted into a big house all in one day. It's not that the owner here is a great connoisseur or spent a lifetime assembling all the best things, but it at least looks organic.

Stern is a good architect to a point, but not brilliant at working within an historic vocabulary as here; he's better at a freer sort of borrowing. The elevations miss the mark and lack finesse, the details mostly right but timid where they should be bolder and vice versa. It's not terrible, it just lacks the depth of knowledge and confidence in historicist styles that architects in the 1910s-1930s had, especially in this area of the country. It's a bit cold and off mark.

r27 Bon Jovi's last tour (2017-2019) grossed $232 million.

r27 Bon Jovi's last tour (2017-2019) grossed $232 million.

He is a total real estate queen. Has bought so many fabulous places. Bought a place (new condo building) nearby in West Village and sold in less than 5 years. The guy loves his real estate.

For NJ, this is classy and classic. Definitely done to contradict every NJ Italian stereotype. The anti-Sporanos house. Would be more appropriate in Westchester than NJ.

I can't even start to think about buying the joint if they don't have pictures of the crapper. Christ.

What's wrong with the house he grew up in R25?

R33 She looks like a normal human being. Less fake than he looks. But she did file for divorce several years ago and their daughter od'd on heroin (didn't die) so money isn't everything. Wonder if Richie Sambora went on tour with them.

[quote] Would be more appropriate in Westchester than NJ.

You mean those tacky new money towns in Westchester?

Mrs. On Assistance Was NOT a fan of them

What an eclectic mix of designs! No one can accuse the Bon Jovis of not having style if they use all of them.

See some of the inside in this old interview with 60 Minutes.

So Miss Smarty Pants: It was NOT staged. LOL

[quote]HINT: It's unlikely that any of that is Bon Jovi's actual furniture, but rather was put there by whomever the realtor hired to stage the place in a way that would appeal to the type of person most likely to spend tens of millions of dollars for a house at the Jersey Shore

Obviously, R14, either you've never been to the Jersey Shore or you're hanging around Paulie, Ronnie, Deena, Nicole, and Mikey around Seaside. Monmouth County has lovely towns with spectacular views of rolling hills, the Navesink River, and the Atlantic Ocean. This house is in Middletown. Other towns with homes like this are Rumson and Colts Neck. There are still other town along the Shore with magnificent homes and quaint downtowns. They include Deal, Elberon and Spring Lake.

“Someone here once claimed that Jon's a bottom.”

Jon Bon Jovi is Jon Bun Jovial?

JBJ nude for Versace. I would have fucked that bottom whore hard and often.

Jersey boys idea of "high falutin". He was hawt when I was in high school.

Love the house. Love the architect. A bit over the top in the living room, but a spectacular house on an amazing piece of land. Landscape is perfect.

Hiddy.

R49 = Ginny Sacrimoni

R51, I do look like that.

Don’t care much for the decorating but the rest is practically perfect.

Tacky as shit. His millions aren’t worth living in that dull, boring house.

Price is $20 million according to CNBC and it has been “quietly” on the market since 2017.

it looks cold and depressing

I like the front.

I would feel as if I were living in a Masterpiece Theater Regency drama every time I pulled up.

This one is a better version of modern classic

My God, he was one hot twink.

I like the kitchen and the outside. The interiors are just overwrought.

He has always seemed like a flamer to me. I’m a woman.

At the very least, some lucky guys got to sexually experiment with him. He may not be gay, but there’s no way he didn’t try to find out.

He looks like Heather Locklear at R61 and r62

Architecture and finishes of that house are very impressive. Some for he surface decor and colors, less so. The front is better than the water facing facade.

Bitch!!

I should like it more than I do, but I don't. This French Chateau style just isn't for me, it's so inflexible making each room rather predictable. It's 18,000 square feet? That's insane and bordering grotesque. The whole house is just too freaking large!

R63 not really.

i knew her cousin. he looked just like her in male form.

he didn't look like Bongiovi

Tasteful Friends consistently proves money dose not buy taste or class.

Much better choice, R58. The lawn in OP's version is so full of chemicals I wouldn't want to step on the lawn, let alone let me pets on it. No comparison regarding the house. Yours has depth and character.

He knew his wife from high school and she is a plain Jane

His wife is more butch than he is

I like the house,sorry gurls . He was smoking hot back when,but he didnt hold a candle to Kip Winger !

I wanted to be in a Jon Bon Jovi / Kip Winger sandwich in the 80's. Kip Winger has held up pretty well too.

I like the house but too much of the buttery gold color in the kitchen and too formal looking furnishings.

His wife is attractive in the 60 minutes video. Everyone ages. She's not ugly.

Bad taste central.

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I, and perhaps many others, would not like to have New Jersey as part of their address. Location, location, location. I know that New Jersey has some lovely places to live, but it is about location after all.

Regardless of the staging, or not, I wouldn't live there. I would prefer that the furnishings be family heirlooms and of the highest quality. Perhaps I'd appreciate that look when I'm much older and full of memories. Right now I prefer minimal, functional, and contemporary furniture and art (minimal) in a home with several open rooms. Few interior doors, though pocket doors would suit me. Lots of glass.

R77 = shop bottom, sharing one bedroom apartment in Hells Kitchen with two roommates at age 46.

[quote]I would prefer that the furnishings be family heirlooms and of the highest quality.

R77's parents have an orange sofa in their trailer they bought from Sears. It has coffee and pee stains on it.

Part 1 of the interview. He has good looking parents.

[quote]He was born to a father who was a marine-turned-hairdresser and a mother who was a marine-turned-Playboy-bunny.

I liked him better before he waxed his chest

Where does he guy his ratty Korean wig?

The house is in this 2nd part

New Jersey is the second wealthiest state. Not everyone cares about misinformation.

"...shop bottom, sharing one bedroom apartment in Hells Kitchen with two roommates at age 46." R78

I know people can be cruel on here, but one insult that just gets in my craw is criticizing people for not being financially successful, for having to have room mates long past the time when they would like to. I am fortunate that I mostly live the way I want to, but I recognize that not everyone can, and that does not make them "less than" or a target of being insulted for it. Any insult is ugly, but that one -- which is often aimed at something beyond anyone's control -- strikes me as being particularly cruel.

With a bit more effort that French "inspired" home could have hit closer to mark.

Why does he have so much money?

R88

For same reasons Sting and some other performers; earnings from their work along with wise investments.

With real estate once you have enough or maybe one good property it is possible to keep building a portfolio via mortgages and or buying/selling.

Keep in mind whenever we hear of a famous person "buying" expensive property it is no different than anyone else. They simply could have put down a certain amount and financed the balance. In most states one way to find this out would be to look to see if a mortgage was recorded in public records.

[quote]I know people can be cruel on here, but one insult that just gets in my craw is criticizing people for not being financially successful, for having to have room mates long past the time when they would like to. I am fortunate that I mostly live the way I want to, but I recognize that not everyone can, and that does not make them "less than" or a target of being insulted for it. Any insult is ugly, but that one -- which is often aimed at something beyond anyone's control -- strikes me as being particularly cruel.

I would never criticize you for impecunity, but I would criticize you for not knowing how to spell roommates.

[quote]Someone here once claimed that Jon's a bottom.

I heard he was rushed to an emergency room after a concert and the doctors pumped a pint of semen out of his stomach.

[quote]Why does he have so much money?

Because he's the frontman/songwriter/brains behind one of the most successful 80s rock bands. They're still touring arenas 36 years after their debut single without having to do package tours.

If you believe this list JBV has higher net worth than Sting (but only just), Ringo Starr, and Keith Richards.

Only Elton John, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, and Jimmy Buffet rank higher.

Since wealth is all about total assets, am guessing JBV like Sting and a few others own far more valuable "stuff", then those lower on list.

If you believe this list JBV has higher net worth than Sting (but only just), Ringo Starr, and Keith Richards.

Only Elton John, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, and Jimmy Buffet rank higher.

Since wealth is all about total assets, am guessing JBV like Sting and a few others own far more valuable "stuff", then those lower on list.